Allan Sloan’s many honors include seven Gerald Loeb Awards and a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Sloan won the Loebs, business journalism’s highest honor, in four different categories and with  five news organizations over four decades.

Sloan, who currently writes a weekly column for The Washington Post, was previously a senior editor-at-large at Fortune magazine,  Newsweek’s Wall Street editor and a columnist at Newsday. He previously wrote for Forbes and Money, among other publications and has appeared on television programs including Charlie Rose, The Colbert Report and C-SPAN, as well as on American Public Media’s Marketplace radio program, carried by NPR. Sloan was the Fall 2013 Ratner Distinguished Visiting Business Journalist, returning to his CUNY roots for one week; Sloan received his bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College.

The Ratner Distinguished Visiting Business Journalist Program brings a distinguished visitor each semester to Baruch College’s Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions.

Created with a gift from Forest City Ratner Companies and its founder and executive chairman Bruce Ratner, the program enables journalists to spend a week in residence, speaking in classes, mentoring students and meeting with the staff of Dollars & Sense, the department’s award-winning online magazine.

Forest City Ratner‘s major New York institutions include The New York Times Building and the Barclays Center.